PERSONAL EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
As you prepare to sail into thought leadership, it is essenal that you turn
your spyglass inwards and clearly idenfy your personal educaonal
philosophy.
What is a personal educational philosophy?
Your personal educaonal philosophy is a comprehensive and coherent
statement of your beliefs about teaching and learning that addresses both
theory and pracce. In addion to more abstract beliefs, it includes
concrete examples that demonstrate the praccal implicaons of your
beliefs in specific educaonal sengs. What you espouse should be a
creave blend of various theories, frameworks, and ideas, with a parcular
context, use-case, or educaonal problem in mind.
Relevance to thought leadership
● As a thought leader, you need strong theorecal underpinnings to
support your views.
● Educaon is a wicked problem. Your unique stance is required to
solve part of it.
● As a thought leader, you open up your ideas for crique. They
must be defensible and you need a strong posion from which to
defend them.
● You will draw on your personal educaonal philosophy to create
your online persona. [link to Chapter 3]
THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS
As a thought leader, your personal educaonal philosophy should be firmly
anchored in evidence-based theories. These theories in turn have their
roots in paradigms, which act as a spyglass through which we navigate the
world. A paradigm in educaon is informed by axiological, ontological, and
epistemological assumpons about the educaon world.
Axiology
What are your values? What is important in educaon? Why is it crucial
that you know and make your values explicit?